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echo: rberrypi
to: RICKMAN
from: ROGER BELL_WEST
date: 2017-12-18 19:05:00
subject: Re: Using a Phone Like a

On 2017-12-18, rickman wrote:
>Roger Bell_West wrote on 12/18/2017 11:59 AM:
>> It's very unlikely to have any modern OS ported to it, so you won't be
>> able to secure it. That's fine if you're in a very local network with
>> no possibility of external access by bad actors (humans or robots).
>Perhaps you can explain what you mean by "modern" OS.  Android isn't a
>"modern" OS?

That page mentions Android KitKat, which is from 2013. Can you put a
modern Android on it, with security fixes since then? If so, for how
much longer can you keep it current?

A major reason I stick with my Pis is that I can keep them all patched
up to date, even the oldest.

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